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Is Specially Selected Sweet Potato & Butternut Squash Soup ultra-processed?

Soups Sold in the United Kingdom

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 36 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Water, sweet potato 17%, Carrot, butternut squash 6%, Onion, red lentils 5%, Red Pepper, double cream, Creamed Coconut Ginger Purée, Butter, Garlic Purée, Red Chilli, Black Onion Seeds Coriander Leaf, Coriander, Salt, Cumin, Garam Masala (Coriander, Cassia, Cloves, Ground Ginger), Vegetable Stock (Salt, Potato Starch, Celeriac, Onion, Garlic, Lovage, Black Pepper, Mace Nutmeg, Parsley, Tomato, Turmeric, Celery), Ground White Pepper Cinnamon, Turmeric

As written on the pack

Water, SWEET POTATO (17%), Carrot, BUTTERNUT SQUASH (6%), Onion, RED LENTILS (5%), Red Pepper, DOUBLE CREAM (MILK) (3%), Creamed Coconut Ginger Purée, Butter (Milk), Garlic Purée, Red Chilli, Black Onion Seeds Coriander Leaf, Ground Coriander, Salt, Cumin Powder, Garam Masala (Ground Coriander, Ground Cassia, Ground Cloves, Ground Ginger), Vegetable Stock (Salt, Potato Starch, Celeriac, Onion, Garlic, Lovage, Black Pepper, Mace Nutmeg, Parsley, Tomato, Turmeric, Celery), Ground White Pepper Cinnamon, Turmeric

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 722 soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 210th. 63% of the soups here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 722 soups, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4061462739538, last edited 27 March 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
  • NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.